103 Results From "fiber optics"

A marauding beaver has plunged several small towns into an internet blackout in northern BC, Canada, after chewing through the base of an aspen tree.
Science & Energy

Mass Canadian Internet Outage Caused by Single Destructive Beaver

Scientists have destroyed the previous data transmission record by achieving a speed of 1.84 petabits per second using only a single light source.
Science & Energy

Scientists Managed to Transmit as Much Data as the Entire Internet’s Bandwidth

Building fiber optic cables with a hollow, air-filled core could finally address an issue that's plagued the tech for 50 years.
Science & Energy

We Can Improve Fiber Optics by Filling Them With Air

The SD card survived the implosion of the OceanGate submersible which went missing while diving to the Titanic shipwreck.
Advanced Transport

Titanic Sub Investigators Find Camera With Intact SD Card Amid Crumpled Wreckage

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on board the ISS or months now. They've since taken up gardening.
NASA

Stranded Astronauts Have Taken Up Gardening, NASA Says

Boeing is still desperately trying to figure out what went wrong with its Starliner spacecraft, which is stuck at the ISS.
Boeing

Boeing Desperately Trying to Figure Out Thruster Issue That’s Stranded Astronauts in Space All Summer

In China, scientists are developing technology that uses lasers to propel submarines nearly as fast as a jet engine. 
Advanced Transport

China Working on Super-Fast Submarines Powered by Lasers

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.
Gene Editing

Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

Scientists Create Flexible Ice That Can Bend Like a Wire
Future Society

Scientists Create Flexible Ice That Can Bend Like a Wire

A team of scientists at Cornell University has created a stretchable fiber-optic sensor that could give robots and virtual reality a "human touch."
Virtual Reality

Will This Glove Finally Let You Touch Stuff in VR?

Doctors managed to "delete" opioid addictions from the brains of lab mice by shining an implanted fiber optic light that prevented withdrawal.
Brain

Scientists Hack Mouse Brains to “Erase” Opioid Addiction

Russia's intelligence agency reportedly sent agents to insepct undersea internet cables around Dublin, a major tech hub, causing fears over wiretapping.
Science & Energy

Russian Intelligence Is Snooping Around Undersea Internet Cables

Last week, scientists achieved "first light" with the Mayall Telescope's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. It could teach us about dark energy.
Energy

Scientists Boot Up New Device to Map the Universe’s Dark Energy

The Boknis Eck Observatory, an underwater research facility that monitored environmental conditions off the coast of Germany, has vanished without a trace.
Science & Energy

An Underwater Research Station Has Vanished Without a Trace

For the first time, scientists generated entangled radiation using a mechanical object. They're describing it as the first step toward a quantum internet.
Physics

Scientists: Entangled Radiation May Help Build “Quantum Internet”

Scientists at Scripps Research say they've found a way to reverse rats' alcoholism by blasting particular neurons in their brains with lasers.
Brain

Scientists Reversed Rats’ Alcoholism by Firing Lasers at Their Brains

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun
Robotics

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun

Goodyear unveiled a concept tire that rotates to give lift to a flying car at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show on Tuesday.
Advanced Transport

Goodyear’s New Concept Tire Doubles as a Flying Car Propeller

Startup Space Tango has unveiled an autonomous orbital facility powered by robots that could be the future of space manufacturing.
Off-World

Startup Unveils Plan for Autonomous Bots to Build Products in Space

Two companies are ready to try manufacturing optical fibers aboard the International Space Station to improve their quality.
Off-World

Two Companies Are Going to Manufacture Optical Fibers in Space